Posted 2 months ago
Child Youth Care Worker (Part-time, Awake Overnight)
@ CSS
Red Deer, Alberta
Overview
Catholic Social Services is hiring a part-time Child and Youth Care Worker in Red Deer, 16 hours per week, on awake overnight shifts. The role supports young people with complex, challenging needs in residential care, covering safety, daily routines, meals, boundaries and life skills. The posting states pay of $22.72 to $24.26 per hour and benefits when eligible.
Pay:
$22.72–$24.26 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Support safe, nurturing environment for youth
- Provide meals, supervision and basic personal care
- Maintain orderly daily schedule and activities
- Encourage life skills and self-directed decision making
- Transport clients in personal vehicle
Requirements summary:
- Diploma or degree in disability services, social work or human services
- Minimum 2 years with complex needs youth
- Emergency First Aid/CPR
- Vulnerable Sector Check and Child Intervention Record Check
- Class 5 licence, insured vehicle with $2M liability
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Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · dayforce-feed
- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-17
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-13
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-15
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Social & community services |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Hours per week | 16 |
| Schedule | overnight |
| Travel | air: none · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Care home, Vehicle |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Licences & certifications | Emergency First Aid, CPR, Class 5, Child Intervention Record Check, Vulnerable Sector Check |
| Driver’s licence | required, own vehicle |
| Background checks | vulnerable sector, driving record |
| Education | College diploma (required) |
| Fields of study | Disability Services, Social Work, Human Services |
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CSS
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 103 |
Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a part time (16 hours/week), Child and Youth Care Worker in Red Deer to join our Children's Residential Services team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!
This is an Awake Overnight position.
Job Summary:
Child and Youth Care Workers provide support within residences for young people that have exceptional, unique and challenging needs and require longer term stabilization, permanency planning and placement, or a transitional placement to further life skill support and development.
The successful applicant will work as part of a team to support:
- A safe environment and exposure to nurturing healthy relationships that promote positive attachment
- A physical environment and materials that support the child’s or youth’s development
- Nutritious meals and snacks
- Age-appropriate boundaries and supervision
- An orderly daily schedule that promotes positive participation in age-appropriate educational, social, recreational, and community activities
- Basic personal needs
Opportunities are provided for the child or youth to develop an awareness of and participate in social, cultural and recreational activities. Children and youth will be encouraged to develop socially acceptable, responsible and self-directing decision making skills and abilities.
What This Job Requires:
- A Diploma/Degree in Disability Services, Social Work or Human Services (or equivalent) is required
- Minimum 2 years’ experience working with children and/or youth with complex needs, challenging behaviours and developmental disabilities
- Knowledge of community events considered an asset
- Valid Emergency First Aid/CPR
- Vulnerable Sector Check from local RCMP or city police detachment
- Child Intervention Record Check
- Clear and Current Drivers Abstract
- A vehicle and valid class 5 driver's license – requirement to transport clients in your personal vehicle
- Proof of Vehicle Insurance showing $2 million liability coverage
- Proof of Vehicle Registration for insured vehicle
What We Offer:
- The compensation for this position is $22.72 to $24.26 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
- Benefits available when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
- Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.
About Catholic Social Services:
CSS is an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect. With more than 60 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1900 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.
We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles. We employ and serve people of all faiths, or no faith, while respecting all backgrounds and experiences.
Our values are at the core of everything we do!
- Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
- Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
- Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.
We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Catholic Social Services is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce. In an effort to enrich our agency and reflect the communities we serve, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all diverse groups and backgrounds.
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